Analysis of The Schoolboy
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
I love to rise in a summer morn
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me.
O! what sweet company!
But to go to school on a summer morn,
O! it drives all joy away;
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day
In sighing and dismay.
Ah! then at times I drooping sit,
And spend many an anxious hour,
Nor in my book can I take delight,
Nor sit in learning's bower,
Worn thro' with the dreary shower.
How can the bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring?
O! father and mother, if buds are nipped
And blossoms blown away,
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay,
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer's fruits appear?
Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the mellowing year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
Scheme | ABABB ACACC XDXDD EFEFF GCGCC EHEHH |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (37%) |
Metre | 111100101 101111001 01010111 001111 111100 1111110101 1111101 1001011 0101101 010001 11111101 011011010 101111101 110110 11101010 110111111 100101 11011101 111101 0011101 1100101111 010101 01010111 11100101 1100101 110100101 1010101 1111101101 1101001 10111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 943 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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